Actions to start up the water desalination plant set up in Papi Lastre, a rural neighborhood in the Granma’s municipality of Cauto Cristo, are progressing at a good pace, says Aristónico Alarcón Contreras, deputy director of investments and maintenance in the delegation of Hydraulic Resources in the province of Granma.

In a post published on his profile on Facebook social network, Alarcón Contreras adds that personnel from the Electric Company, the Cauto Cristo Aqueduct and Sewer Base Business Unit, the Segunda Villa non-agricultural cooperative (construction of civil facilities), the mixed company Acuanova SA and Hydraulic Resources in Granma, are working on the completion of the work in order to put it into operation as soon as possible.

Consulted by telephone, Alarcón Contreras specified that the plant’s equipment was recently tested and worked well.

The main pending task in the work, he pointed out, is related to the installation of the necessary means for its protection against electric shocks.

For his part, Norberto Millán Sánchez, acting director of the Aqueduct and Sewerage Company in Granma, which will operate the desalination plant once it is started up, pointed out that it also needs to touch up its water tanks to eliminate leaks.

The aforementioned will be the second water treatment plant of this type to provide services, the first began to do so in May 2018 in El Salvial, a Cauto-Christian rural community, and a third in Las Mangas, Bayamo municipality, which is under execution, should continue.

The Papi Lastre desalination plant “has a design capacity to process two thousand liters of water per hour, which will be delivered to consumers through an easily accessible point,” underlines Aristónico Alarcón Contreras.

In water treatment and purification plants such as the one mentioned, purification is carried out through a complex process of filtration and injection of chemical substances, called reverse osmosis, which is delivered suitable for human consumption.